On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Yinghai Lu <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]> wrote:
>> [+cc Rafael, just FYI since it involves PNP resources]
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Yinghai Lu <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Mathhew reported kernels fail the pci_eisa probe and are later successful
>>> with the virtual_eisa_root_init force probe without slot0.
>>>
>>> The reason for that is: pnp probing is early than pci_eisa_init get called
>>> as pci_eisa_init is called via pci_driver.
>>>
>>> pnp 00:0f has 0xc80 - 0xc84 reserved.
>>> [    9.700409] pnp 00:0f: [io  0x0c80-0x0c84]
>>>
>>> so eisa_probe will fail from pci_eisa_init
>>>                                 ==>eisa_root_register
>>>                                         ==>eisa_probe path.
>>> as force_probe is not set in pci_eisa_root, it will bail early when
>>> slot0 is not probed and initialized.
>>>
>>> Try to use subsys_initcall_sync instead, and will keep following sequence:
>>>         pci_subsys_init
>>>         pci_eisa_init_early
>>>         pnpacpi_init/isapnp_init
>>
>> Is this a regression?  This must have worked at one time, but it seems
>> like we've had pnpacpi_init/isapnp_init/pnpbios_init before PCI
>> drivers for quite a while.
>
> Yes.

Do you know when the regression occurred?  If you do, I'll add that
info to the "stable" tag.

Bjorn
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